Despite the leaps and bounds DWF has made in the CAD community. I'm still seeing PDF as a popular choice for electronic file sharing. The reasons are simple. PDF has been around for ages. Non-technical people know about PDF. And many of us have to submit drawings to non-technical people for a variety of reasons. I still get questions like "What's a DWF file?" from people in the industry. So, let's face the fact that as a CAD user, you will still need to create and manage PDF files.
There are alot of PDF creation tools out there. Some of them are free. (See my earlier post for my choices for that!)
When it gets to free PDF management though, the choices dwindle considerably. But I found a great utility called PDFSAM (PDF Split And Merge). Well by the name it offers some nice options, including, Merging, splitting, rotating, reordering, etc. It requires Java to run, but I've been testing it out. It works great. Very stable, and you can use an installer version, or a zip version. That's a plus for people that have restricted rights on computers.
So for basic PDF management, it's my choice.
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Our tool SciPlore MindMapping might be interesting for you. It can monitor folders for new PDF files and import bookmarks automatically into a mind map. the software's website is http://www.sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/
and there is a tutorial about how to write a phd thesis with sciplore mindmapping http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/
the first part of the tutorial shows how to manage electronic literature with mind maps.
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